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...traffic around Cambridge Common will be established for a trial period starting March 1, under an ordinance passed by the City Council yesterday. The change is part of a plan to have a complex of one-way streets surrounding the Common and the Yard...
Taking a long look beyond the crash problems and crash solutions of the present, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., gathered in triennial convention in St. Louis last week, talked eloquently of the problems of the long haul...
...Lauris Norstad has observed: "I get my formal directives on a piece of paper which I receive from the NATO Council. But my real directive is the confidence that nations place in this agency." If the Paris meeting can restore and reinvigorate that confidence, the meeting will be well held...
...Airman Norstad makes nothing of either time or space in the pursuit of NATO business. "There is a sort of Roman aspect about Norstad," says André de Staercke, permanent Belgian representative on the NATO Council. "There are no borders for this man. Any morning he is apt to say: 'We will be in Ankara at 8 o'clock tonight.' " Often such flying trips serve primarily as valuable propaganda for NATO; sometimes they herald a new departure in the defense of Europe. A few months ago in Italy Norstad moved an audience to tears by declaring: "There...
Shield & Sword. Last spring, in the wake of Britain's decision to cut its armed forces in half by 1962, the Atlantic Council gave Norstad a formidable task: to prepare an estimate of NATO's force requirements for the next five years, taking into account economic and political pressures for demobilization and the changing relationship between conventional and nuclear strength. It is a measure of Norstad's capacity as a planner that although his report was finished two days before the first Sputnik went up, the conclusions that he reached remain valid. Some of his premises...